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                <p>You can monitor Bug activity for a team project by using the Bugs dashboard, which
                    shows the following charts:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Bug burndown</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>the rate at which the team is finding, resolving, and closing Bugs over time</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>the count of priority Bugs over time</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>the current count of active Bugs that are assigned to each team member </p>
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                                        <p>You access dashboards through your team project portal. You can access the Bugs dashboard
                                            only if that portal has been enabled and is provisioned to use Microsoft Office
                                            SharePoint Server 2007. For more information, see <span sdata="link">
                                            <a href="DashboardsGovDev.html">
                                                Dashboards (GovDev)</a></span>  or <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/644ee4b7-3653-4943-9809-3d14d4d79c48">
                                                    Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance</a></span>.</p>
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                                <p><span class="label">In this topic</span> </p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Data">Data That Appears in the Dashboard</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Activities">Required Activities for Tracking Bugs</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Using">Monitoring Active Bugs and Bug Trends</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                                <p><span class="label">You can use this dashboard to answer the following questions</span> 
                                    :</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How quickly is the team resolving and closing bugs? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Is the team fixing bugs quickly enough to finish on time? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How many bugs is the team reporting, resolving, and closing per day?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Is the team resolving priority 1 bugs before priority 2 and 3 bugs?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Does any team member have a backlog of priority 1 bugs that warrant redistribution?
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>What is the status of last night's build?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>What were the most recent check-ins?</p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                <p><span class="label">Required Permissions</span> </p>
                <p>To view the dashboard, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned
                    the <span class="ui">Read</span> permissions in SharePoint Products for the team
                    project. To modify, copy, or customize the dashboard, you must be assigned or belong
                    to a group that has been assigned the <span class="ui">Members</span> permissions
                    in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see <span sdata="link">
                        <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/3cfefdd2-b161-4e04-8dc0-e2deeac50262">Add
                            Users to Team Projects</a></span>.</p>
                <p>To modify a report in Office Excel, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">
                    TfsWarehouseDataReaders</span> security role in SQL Server Analysis Services. You
                    must also be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the <span class="ui">
                        Members</span> permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more
                    information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/c7488754-77af-4fb4-8eca-1af0d206c9c8">
                        Grant Access to the Databases of the Data Warehouse for Visual Studio ALM</a>
                    </span>.</p>
                <p>To view a Bug or other type of work item, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">
                    Readers</span> group or your <span class="ui">View work items in this node</span> 
                    permission must be set to <span class="ui">Allow</span>. To create or modify a Bug
                    or other type of work item, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">Contributors
                    </span> group or your <span class="ui">Edit work items in this node</span> permission
                    must be set to <span class="ui">Allow</span>. For more information, see <span sdata="link">
                        <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/8f1f5f39-ed0f-4539-bee1-7e7e77bb5728">Managing
                            Permissions</a></span>.</p>
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                That Appears in the Dashboard</span> </h1>
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                <p>The team can use the Bugs dashboard to understand how well the team is finding, resolving,
                    and closing bugs. Specifically, the dashboard displays the Web parts that the following
                    illustration shows and the following table describes: </p>
                <img alt="Bugs Dashboard" src="../art/ProcGuid_DashBugs.png" /><div class="alert">
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                            <th align="left">
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                                <p>Burndown, trend, and bar charts, reports
                                    <img alt="Step 1" src="../art/ProcGuid_1.gif" />
                                    through
                                    <img alt="Step 4" src="../art/ProcGuid_4.gif" />, do not appear when the server
                                    that hosts Analysis Services for the team project is not available.</p>
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                <p>For more information about how to interpret, update, or customize the charts that
                    appear in the Bugs dashboard, see the topics that are listed in the following table.
                </p>
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                            <th>
                                <p>Web part</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Data displayed</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topic</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
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                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 1" src="../art/ProcGuid_1.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>A visual representation of the cumulative count of all Bugs, grouped by their state,
                                    for the past four weeks.</p>
                                <img alt="Bug Progress Excel Report" src="../art/ProcGuid_ExcelBug.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugProgressExcelReport.html">Bug Progress Excel Report
                                    </a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 2" src="../art/ProcGuid_2.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Line chart that shows the rolling average of the number of Bugs that the team has
                                    opened, resolved, and closed for the past four weeks. The rolling average is based
                                    on the seven days before the date for which it is calculated.</p>
                                <img alt="Bug Trends report" src="../art/ProcGuid_BugTrends.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugTrendsExcelReport.html">Bug Trends Excel Report</a>
                                </span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 3" src="../art/ProcGuid_3.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>A visual representation of the cumulative count of all Bugs, grouped by their priority,
                                    for the past four weeks.</p>
                                <img alt="Bugs by priority chart" src="../art/ProcGuid_ByPriority.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugsbyPriorityExcelReport.html">Bugs by Priority Excel
                                    Report</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 4" src="../art/ProcGuid_4.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>A horizontal bar chart with the total count of active Bugs that each team member
                                    has currently assigned to them, grouped by priority.</p>
                                <img alt="Bugs by Assignment chart" src="../art/ProcGuid_ByAssignment.png" />
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugsbyAssignmentExcelReport.html">Bugs by Assignment
                                    Excel Report</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 5" src="../art/ProcGuid_6.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of the active Bugs. The list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.
                                </p>
                                <img alt="Bug Trends report" src="../art/ProcGuid_BugTrends.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TriageWorkbook.html">Triage Workbook</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 6" src="../art/ProcGuid_6a.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of upcoming events. The list is derived from a SharePoint Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Import Events Web part" src="../art/SharePoint_Dashboard.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Not applicable</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 7" src="../art/ProcGuid_7.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Count of active, resolved, and closed work items. You can open the list of work 
                                    items by clicking each number. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web 
                                    part.</p>
                                <img alt="Project Work Items Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashProjectWI.png" />
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Work Items and 
                                    Workflow (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 8" src="../art/ProcGuid_8.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of recent builds and their status. You can view more details about a build by
                                    clicking it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Recent Builds Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashBuilds.png" /><p><span class="label">
                                    Legend</span>:</p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build in Progress" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_1.gif" />: Build in Progress
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Not Started" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_2.gif" />: Build Not Started
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Succeeded" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_3.gif" />: Build Succeeded
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Failed" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_4.gif" />: Build Failed
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Stopped" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_5.gif" />: Build Stopped
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Partially Succeeded" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_6.gif" />: Build
                                    Partially Succeeded</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/5c0de804-7ff9-468b-9053-fd068ea1a2bc">
                                    Managing and Viewing Completed Builds</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <img alt="9" src="../art/ProcGuid_9.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of the most recent check-ins. You can view more details about a specific check-in
                                    by clicking it. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Recent Checkins Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashCheckins.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dded21d3-4869-4e19-bca4-62e27179539c">
                                    Using the Check In and Pending Changes Windows</a></span> </p>
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                Activities for Tracking Bugs</span> </h1>
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                <p>For the reports that appear in the Bugs dashboard to be useful and accurate, the
                    team must perform the following activities:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Define Bugs, and specify their <span class="ui">Iteration</span> and <span class="ui">
                            Area</span> paths. </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Assign each Bug to the team member who is working to resolve or close it.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Specify the <span class="ui">Priority</span> of each Bug.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Update the <span class="ui">State</span> of each Bug as the team fixes, verifies,
                            and closes it. </p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
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                Active Bugs and Bug Trends</span> </h1>
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                <p>Team members can use the Bugs dashboard to determine whether they are managing the
                    list of active Bugs according to established team goals and agile practices. By
                    unit testing each increment of code before check-in, the team can reduce the overall
                    number of bugs that the team must find. A team that focuses on being able to ship
                    each increment of code removes defects incrementally and minimizes ongoing bugs.
                </p>
                <p>By using the Bugs dashboard, the team can answer the following questions:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Is the number of active Bugs acceptable based on team goals? Is the team postponing
                            too many Bugs?</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Is the team finding, fixing, and closing Bugs quickly enough to meet expectations
                            and at a rate that matches previous development cycles? </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Is the team addressing high priority bugs before lower priority bugs?</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Does any team member need help in resolving bugs?</p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>For more questions to ask based on the indicators that appear in the dashboard, see
                    the following sections:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p><a href="#Progress">Bug Progress Indicators</a></p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><a href="#Trend">Trend Indicators</a></p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><a href="#PriorityDistribution">Priority and Distribution of Bugs</a></p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
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                <h3 class="subHeading">Bug Progress Indicators</h3>
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                                    <p>Indicator</p>
                                </th>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Questions to ask</p>
                                </th>
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                                    <p><span class="label">The band for active Bugs is becoming wider</span>. If the width
                                        of the team's band for active Bugs is increasing, the Bug backlog is growing. The
                                        team is finding more Bugs than it can resolve or close. </p>
                                    <p>A widening band of active Bugs might indicate that a bottleneck is slowing the team's
                                        ability to resolve and close Bugs.</p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are team members being reallocated to other, non-priority tasks?</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are other issues blocking the team's ability to resolve and fix Bugs? </p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The number of active Bugs is not changing</span>. A flat trend
                                        in the number of active Bugs indicates that the team is not finding Bugs.</p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Is the test coverage sufficient?</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are other issues blocking the team's ability to find Bugs?</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The number of resolved or closed Bugs is not changing</span>.
                                        When the number of Bugs that the team is resolving or closing remains flat for long
                                        periods of time, team members might not be able to resolve or close Bugs.</p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are team priorities correctly set? </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are team members overallocated on other tasks?</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are team members correctly tracking their Bug status?</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
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                <a name="Trend" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Bug Trend Indicators</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <div class="caption"></div>
                    <div class="tableSection">
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                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Indicator</p>
                                </th>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Questions to ask</p>
                                </th>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The team is resolving many Bugs in each time period</span>. A
                                        high resolution rate usually indicates that the team is making good progress.
                                    </p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Is the team promptly closing the Bugs that it resolves? The rate of closure should
                                                resemble the rate of resolution.</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Is the team reactivating Bugs at an acceptable rate? </p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The team is resolving Bugs quickly but not closing them</span>.  
                                        Team members who are assigned to verify fixes might be spread too thin, or different
                                        priorities might keep those team members from closing resolved Bugs.</p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are test resources over-allocated? </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Should the team revisit test priorities?</p>
                                            <p>For more information about these metrics, see <span sdata="link">
                                                <a href="TestDashboardGovDev.html">
                                                Test Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The team is finding few bugs in each time period</span>. The
                                        team might struggle to find bugs in a high-quality solution or with ineffective
                                        testing.</p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Do the metrics for code coverage, code churn, or test progress indicate a problem
                                                with the code or testing?</p>
                                            <p>For more information about these metrics, see <span sdata="link">
                                                <a href="QualityDashboardGovDev.html">
                                                Quality Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The team is finding about the same number of bugs in successive
                                        time periods</span>. If the team finds the same number of bugs week after week or
                                        iteration after iteration, you might investigate the underlying cause. Early in
                                        the testing cycle, the tests might not be rigorous or advanced enough to find many
                                        bugs. In early iterations, this situation is expected. However, as the product matures,
                                        tests should exercise broader scenarios and integrations. </p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are the test cases adequate to test the use cases that the team is developing?
                                            </p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Have the tests become stale or are they testing the wrong functionality?</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Is the test team rigorously testing each use case?</p>
                                            <p>For more information about these metrics, see <span sdata="link">
                                                <a href="TestDashboardGovDev.html">
                                                Test Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The team is finding many bugs in each time period</span>. The
                                        team might find bugs easily in sloppy code, in newly integrated code, with effective
                                        testing, or during a specific event, such as a bug bash. </p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Do the metrics for code coverage, code churn, or test progress indicate a problem
                                                with the code or testing?</p>
                                            <p>For more information about these metrics, see <span sdata="link">
                                                <a href="QualityDashboardGovDev.html">
                                                Quality Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span>.</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </div>
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                <a name="PriorityDistribution" />
                <h3 class="subHeading">Bug Priority and Distribution</h3>
                <div class="subsection">
                    <div class="caption"></div>
                    <div class="tableSection">
                        <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                            <tr>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Indicator</p>
                                </th>
                                <th>
                                    <p>Questions to ask</p>
                                </th>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">The number of active higher priority Bugs is larger than the
                                        number of active lower priority Bugs</span>. When the number of high priority Bugs
                                        is much larger than the number of lower priority bugs, the team might be focusing
                                        on lower priority items first. </p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Is the team fixing bugs in the order of priority set by the team?</p>
                                        </li>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Are issues blocking the team's ability to fix the higher priority bugs?</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <p><span class="label">Bug assignments are not evenly distributed</span>. The team might
                                        consider reassigning work when many Bugs are assigned to one or two team members
                                        and only a few to other team members. </p>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <ul>
                                        <li>
                                            <p>Should the team balance the workload by reassigning Bugs?</p>
                                        </li>
                                    </ul>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
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